Improvement in clothes-driers



UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JAMES REED AND HUGH A1 JONES, OF PITTSBUR-Gr, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH ES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,272, dated August 22, 1871 antedated August 10, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES W. REED and HUGH A. J onns, of Pittsburg, in the county of A1- legheny and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drier; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and-to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a clothes-drier, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which is a longitudinal vertical section of our clothes-drier.

A represents a frame of any suitable dimensions rising from a bed-piece, B. In the center of the frameis an upright shaft, 0, having its lower hearing in thebedB and its upperbearingin the crossbar of the frame, as shown. Near the lower end of the said shaft 0 is attached a circular disk, D, from the edges of which, at suitable intervals, extend bars E E. These bars all lean outward, as shown, and cords or wires a a are wound around,

connecting them and formin g a cone. Upon these cords or wires the clothes are hung to be dried. Near the upper end of the shaft 0 and on the same is attached a bevel co g-wheel, Gr, which gears with a similar co g-wheel, G, upon a shaft, H, said shaft being revolved by means of a crank or any other convenient means, causingthe cone to revolve and drying the clothes by the current of air produced by said motion.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described clothes-drier, consisting of a skeleton frame made larger at its top than at its bottom, and composed of the inclined bars E E, disk D, and circular bars a a with a central shaft, 0, all arranged within the frame A and 0p erated by the shaft H and wheels G G, as set forth. I

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 15th day of March, 1870.

JAMES W. REED. HUGH A. JONES.

Witnesses:

1. DONALDSON, J onn DONALD. 

